Dude! Zombie's!

Mosquitos carrying a deadly form of Malaria, with a 100% mortality rate, have attacked Cambodia.

"After death, this parasite is able to restart the heart of its victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believed to be a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during 'resurrection.' "

Check it out.

the ABC's of my browser

The Alphabet in the form of URL's:

A - http://www.absolutewrite.com/
B - http://www.blogspot.com/
C - http://www.corriere.it/
D - http://www.deviantart.com/
E - http://www.ebay.com/
F - http://www.freenewmexican.com/
G - http://www.gaim.sorceforge.net
H - http://www.hipandtrippy.com/
I - http://www.iowrestling.net/
J - http://www.jbc.org/
K - http://www.kenvaldez.com
L - http://www.laptopkings.com/
M - http://www.mail.yahoo.com/
N - http://www.nytimes.com/
O - http://www.oneword.com/
P - http://www.prudentpressagency.com/
Q - http://www.q4music.com/
R - http://www.reuters.com/
S - http://www.squishedlizard.net/
T - http://www.thinkexist.com/
U - http://www.ulc.org/
V - http://www.vam.ac.uk/
W - http://www.writers.net/
X - http://www.xanga.com/shirawolf
Y - http://www.yourap.org
Z - http://www.zottepark.tk

Now I've said my ABC's, next time won't you browse with me. =)

To play this game: Type http://www. into your browser and then follow that with a letter. A, B, C, D etc etc, and then copy the URL into a form like this one. =)

Quote of the day

"The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants." ~ Johnny Depp

Quote of the day

"I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total suprise." ~ Chuck Palahniuk

Not sure what number we're on.

Okay,
In response to Liz's question:
Where do you stand on abortion?
I would say I'm completely and undoubtedly pro-choice. Mostly, though, because I'm not a christian fundamentalist. However, if I were I might realize that the abortion issue isn't tackled in the bible. Amidst the gorey and mythological tales of people being slain for not worshipping a God that has never publicly spoke or killed anyone since the first century there's nothing saying a group of cells lodged in a womb, feeding off a woman like a cancer can not be terminated. And, furthermore, if people believe in the bible so dearly how can they accept somethings of science and reject others? For instance, science showed that an embryo was made nine months previous to its birth and couldn't sustain its growth without its host. The Christian population, not as a whole but as a majority, jumped on this concept and ran straight to the vatican to get the idea confirmed and spread. However, the pope was not so quick to accept the scientific evidence of the earth not being the center of the universe (that was only accepted a few years ago) and it still hasn't caught on that evolution occurs. In fact, I saw a christian t-shirt that said "Say "No" to Evolution" this makes absolutely no sense to me and I don't think that its right to pick and choose what is correct out of the bible and what to accept out of reality. Live in one world and stop harassing people that don't live in yours.

You can many more arguments against abortion and government at my blog. (click "Joshua" below)

-Joshua.

slllllllacker

My God you people are slacking.

Jesus and his resurection

So, Jesus comes back from the grave, and he approaches you. He'll ask you how you're going to repent for your earthly sins. Where are you, and what do you say?

I would be sitting in a coffee shop, maybe just writing, and in would walk Jesus.

There is a Jesus in the city. A lot of them, actually, but it's a Hispanic town, so it's pronounced "Hey-seus."

The Jesus I'm reffering to happens to be a drug dealer. He'd walk in, offer me some coke at the price of a small child in Mexico starving, and then! Then in would walk the head honcho.

I'd get outta my chair and say, "Hey man, I thought you died."

and he'd say "Yeah, I did."

"Right on"

"So, your sins....how do you justify them?"

"well you died for them."

"Liz! That's Lame, and you know it!"

"Okay, okay, the truth is, I didn't believe in this whole catholic scheme. I thought they were just making money, and improve the reaches of their cult. I thought I could sin all I wanted, and it wouldn't matter because I'd die, and be burried, and that'd be that."

"Have a little more faith next time. The Lord works in mysterious ways."

"Yeah, no shit! But how do you explain catholicism?"

"Well, you see," Jesus says, sitting down, and taking off his sandles, " the Bible isn't really what happened. My old man sent me out for some milk"

"but what about Mary?" asks Drug Dealer Jesus.

"Oh, that? My 'mom'? ha! a lie. A stupid catholic lie."

"So, Jesus,"

"Yes?" they both would answer.

"Recently awoken from the grave Jesus."

"Yes, my child?"

"You were saying?"

"Oh, right. Dad sent me out for some milk, and I got kidnapped by these 3 guys with masks. They brain washed me, told me I'm some miracle worker, and say 'Dude, we've got a magic hat, and a bunny...all you have to do, is play along, and you'll have all the milk your dad could ever want.' This sounded like a good deal to me. Oh, how was I naieve."

"So what happened?"

"Well, they brain washed me, like I said, and made me work all these 'miracles' water into wine, and the whole bit. They really just switched the jugs on that one. Then, well, you know the rest." Jesus would say, putting back on his sandles.

"Wow. You should make like a lifetime movie..."

Starbucks in Istanbul, Turkey is hiring.

Abortion

Abortion: Where do you stand?

Personally, I'm pro choice.

I agree with "It's my body." I'm not ready for a child; if it happens, by freak chance, that I get pregnant, it would take a lot to deter me from having a medical abortion at this point in my life. I am a capable, free thinking, human being. I should get to decide. However, if the pregnancy is longer than 30 days, I will carry the child to term.

Does that make me a bad person by wanting to stop the chemical reaction in it's tracks?

Egg or Chicken?

I came in, and looked at the thingy with the stuff... the blog, and I was blown away! Someone else updated! I was fuckin' amazed! Thanks Josh!

Okay, so he posed a question:

Logically explain how the chicken may have came
before the egg, or the egg came before the chicken.

Philosophers will treat it as a conumdrum, if you will, as it is difficult to prove one way or the other. This may be tackled, however, by shipping a chicken, and an egg to your philosopher teacher, to determine which came first. If you don't feel like being so entirely cruel to the chicken, you may use a stuffed chicken, and a hard boiled egg.

The purpose of the question is to illustrate that it's difficult sometimes to establish the exact origin of something, anything. The question is rarely answered.

Short answer: Eggs predate chickens by about 249 million years.

Here's why:

If a chicken were to trace it's roots, the chicken, let's call her Dida, would trace her roots way, way back, and then finally discover that she had some Non-chicken grandparents. Dida would discover that her ancestor chickens were in Thailand - a species of Red Jungle Fowl. Darwin suspected the Red Jungle Fowl to be the "original" chicken, and all chickens to have since evolved from them. This theory is that "domestic" chickens evolved from the Red Jungle Fowl, 8,000 years ago, and were used for cockfighting, and later, eating.

The Red Jungle Fowl is not exactly a chicken. So, in theory, Dida's great x 100 grandmother which emerged from an egg in all of her glory, came from the crossbreading of various jungle fowl, meaning the Egg came first, from the Red Jungle Fowl.

Where did the Red Jungle Fowl come from? The most popular theory is that the Red Jungle Fowl evolved from birds, which evolved from a suspected egg-laying, feathered dinosaur.

But then where did the Egg come from?

Scientests have come to believe that eggs have been in existance for over 1 billion years. Eggs are thought to be the incubators of life. When land animals evolved 250 million years ago from the ocean animals, their eggs originally had a thick covering on the outside to keep out moisture, and keep the baby animal dry while it grew. The first land egg predates the chicken by apx 249 million years.

Twelve.

Hm... I'll tackle the two issues that have been brought up this far in the blog (and not just Liz's random garbles on glowing scorpions and titty bars).

Firstly, how do I define reality?
Reality is really just a matrix, see? a giant computer program... HALT! just fuckin' kidding.
Okay, I define reality as the first-person and one-point perspective that one will have on the rest of the world. I think of things like how other people define or see colors... and the truth to the matter is that anyone's image could be anything, they might see the purple we see but know it as green because thats how they percieved the color. Infact, it would make even more sense if some peoples vision was negative, because then you bring in factors such as the values of colors, light and dark... and the person still could've learned them the same way we did but infact they see oposites. But, I don't know why I think of shit like this when I'm in art. But, I do. So, moving on furthermore... reality will never be a constant, I think its possible even to have made up a conversation with a person, without having that conversation so as not to institute schitzophrenia... but an inspirational saving grace... because I've asked myself many a time "hasn't this already happened?" or "did that ever happen?" so reality is just a constant change of your minds signals and how you percieve the world around you, making it non existant to anyone else but very real.

Secondly, where do I get my inspiration?

Artists like VanGogh, Picasso, O'Keef, Warhol, and the small time-- Kelly O'Neel

Musicians like Saves the Day, Glass Jaw, The Postal Service, The Anniversary, and N*Sync The Foreign Exchange

Authors like Homer, Nersesian, Nietzsche, and Palahniuk

Directors like Richard Kelly, Alfonso Cuarón, and Jonathan Demme

Drugs like Marijuna, Nicotine, Alcohol, Sugar and Caffeine.

Recreation like Partying, Sitting Alone at Parties and Pretending I'm Watching a Movie, Talking on the Phone, Talking on IM, Watching T.V., Watching Movies, Surging the Internet, and Graphic Designing

Houses of Design like Dior, Versace, and Armani. (sounds pretentious, I know... but they do inspire me)

Food and Drinks like Coffee, Mountain Dew, Milk with "Sandies" Cookies, Coffee, Baked Doritos, Salad with Pizza, Coffee, and Extra-Sharp Cheddar with Wheat Ritz Crackers.


Well, I'll leave you all with something to think about or to post about...
Logically explain how the chicken may have came before the egg, or the egg came before the chicken.


Love,
Joshua

Narciposticism

"Narciposticism! That's my word for today! Now try to say it 5 times fast!"

C'mon people!!! SLACKING!

Adult Strip Club

BOISE, Idaho -- Art night at Erotic City apparently wasn't artistic enough.

Police raided the Boise bar Monday night for violating the city's nudity ordinance, which requires that dancers wear at least pasties and a thong unless they are engaging in a performance with "serious artistic merit."

The club had tried to beat the ordinance by distributing pencils and sketch pads to patrons during special twice-weekly "art nights," when dancers performed nude.

"It's actually pretty clear in the city ordinance that there are exemptions for dance and theater and artistic merits, but the law also clearly states that the exemption does not apply to adult businesses," said police spokeswoman Lynn Hightower. "If it were an art studio and models were actually posing, that would be one thing. But these women weren't posing. They were dancing."

Erotic City is not the only club to take a creative approach to taking it all off.

"There have been cases where ladies temporarily tattooed the word vote on themselves and that was upheld in court as political speech," Angelina Spencer, national director of the North Carolina-based Association of Club Executives, said in Naples, Fla.

Erotic City owner Chris Teague has vowed to fight the citations in court.

"The only thing we're going to be paying is our attorney," Teague said. "We're here to protect our constitutional right. It's nothing less than communism -- when are they going to say you can't get naked in your own home?"

Where do you get your inspiration?

Glowing Scorpions

Turns out not everybody knows scorpions glow! I thought this was common knowledge, but I guess not, so I have to talk about it.

There is a chemical in the Chitin of the scorpion which allows them to glow when put under a UV light. The baby scorpions don't glow, because their chitin hasn't developed enough. Nobody is particularly sure why scorpions glow. One theory is to attract food, but there are pleanty of things that flouresce which are not predators. And also, scorpions will continue to glow after death.

Playin' every sunday

Young folks, old folks, 'bout to cut a rug. Foxtrot, bunny hop, do the jitter bug.

Five

How do you describe reality?

Do you know the way to Santiago?

You go down da road, and to da left, and when you get to da mailbox...that's no it!

You go down da road, to da left, to da right, to da left again, and then you go down da road, and dere it is!!!

Two.

Okay, new blog.. new posting style, I suppose. And maybe not.

Communal blog... this is a pretty new concept to me. And fun, I hope Liz gets many people to join so this can be a free moving stream of thoughts and... other things?

And on that basis, I think that this blog should be used to argue things and not to talk about the day-to-day unless otherwise is pointed out as a method of exemplifying something that's being argued... which I'm sure will be common since the day-to-day is what people are freshly thinking about.

And, on that note I will stop pretending to administer and prescribe guidelines for a blog I did not create in the first place and move on to an argument.

IS IT OKAY TO HATE PEOPLE FOR BEING FAKE?
ex) Pretending to be religious or having other non-applicable moral standpoints that don't apply to you in the slightest, but that you're using in an effort to make yourself look better to people that may have some clout in a field that could some how affect you, even in the slightest.

Yay, I say, and so does Liz... because we're having this conversation via AIM.

Mainly, I say yes because when you sacrifice who you are and what you believe then, by definition, you are a sell-out. You're nothing individual and you're nothing unique, unless you consider being a completely conformable and moldable hybrid relative of a chameleon and a brick of clay unique.

Well... I really hope this takes off.
Love,
JOSHUA T. LIEBERMAN

One

One.

First post! Who-hoo!

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